Michael Wincott

Film Actor

Male

BornJan 21, 1958

Age57

HometownToronto, Ontario

Other NamesMichael Anthony C...

Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott is a Canadian actor from Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Juilliard in 1986, after which, joined the New York City theatre with Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. His NYC plays include Serious Money (1988), Road (1988), The Secret Rapture (1989), and State of Shock (1991).… Read More

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A Lonely Place for Dying (currently available on iTunes) is a powerful independent thriller from promising new director Justin Eugene Evans.
Set in 1972, the film centers on a KGB mole, Nikolai Dzerzhinsky (Ross Marquand), who threatens to expose the misdoings within the CIA in exchange for asylum in the United States. Agent Robert Harper (Michael Scovotti) is called in to kill Dzerzhinsky and destroy the evidence he has against the organization.
As the effects of Vietnam con...

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Almost to the end, folks. But before we finally recap the best (or, err, my favorites) of 2012, let''s take a pit stop to discuss what are arguably the worst films of 2012. Now as always, I can''t presume that I''ve seen every terrible movie out there (I generally avoid Adam Sandler comedies and didn''t catch Parental Guidance in time), but I tried to highlight films that were both very bad and whose respective failures meant something more than just their artistic inadequacy. ...

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Hitchcock
2012
95 minutes
rated PG-13
by Scott Mendelson
It is telling that the opening frames of Sacha Gervasi''s Hitchcock don''t even give us the usual ''based on a true story'' text as its allegedly non-fiction story begins. It''s the only honest moment of the entire picture, which is so gloriously full of shit that it can''t bear to even pretend that the story it''s presenting is remotely truthful. Technically based on Stephen Rebello''s 1990 boo...

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-- The man who made "Psycho" was no lightweight, though he kind of comes off that way in "Hitchcock."
Starring Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife and collaborator, Alma, "Hitchcock" puts a featherlight yet entertaining touch on the behind-the-scenes struggle to make the mother of all slasher films.
Hitchcock''s very dark side gets superficial treatment as the film offers the cinematic equivalent of psychobabble to explore the director''s ...